Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Biden Snaps at Construction Worker During Heated Gun-Control Argument: ‘You’re Full of Sh**’

Biden Snaps at Construction Worker During Heated Gun-Control Argument: ‘You’re Full of Sh**’Former vice president Joe Biden on Tuesday berated a construction worker in Michigan after the man challenged his stance on gun control."You are actively trying to end our Second Amendment right and take away our guns," the man told Biden as the candidate greeted workers building a Fiat-Chrysler assembly plant."You're full of sh**," Biden responded. A Biden aide tried to end the discussion, but the candidate silenced her in order to continue speaking with the worker. "I support the Second Amendment … from the very beginning. I have a shotgun. I have a 20-gauge, a 12-gauge. My sons hunt," he said.> WATCH: "You’re full of sh*t," @JoeBiden tells a man who accused him of "actively trying to end our Second Amendment right."> > "I support the Second Amendment," Biden adds while vising under-construction auto plant in Detroit. @CBSNews pic.twitter.com/sueOSBaY9P> > -- Bo Erickson CBS (@BoKnowsNews) March 10, 2020The two men then argued about whether Biden had said he would try to take away Americans' guns."This is not okay, alright?" the worker said, to which Biden responded, "Don't tell me that, pal, or I'm going to go out and slap you in the face.""You're working for me, man!" the worker responded."I'm not working for you," Biden shot back. "Don't be such a horse's ass."The exchange took place hours before Biden was scheduled to meet with gun-control organizations in Ohio.Failed presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke endorsed Biden before Super Tuesday, and Biden said O'Rourke would lead gun control efforts during his presidency. O'Rourke became infamous among gun-rights advocates after threatening to seize certain firearms from their legal owners."Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15," O'Rourke said at an early Democratic primary debate.




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Protests erupt at Biden’s raucous Detroit rally

Protests erupt at Biden’s raucous Detroit rallyCory Booker and Kamala Harris joined Biden on stage in Detroit to a roaring crowd.




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CDC: Many Americans will probably be exposed to coronavirus at some point, 'and there's a good chance many will become sick'

CDC: Many Americans will probably be exposed to coronavirus at some point, 'and there's a good chance many will become sick'In a media briefing Monday, an organization leader said "this virus is capable of spreading easily and sustainably from person to person."




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Nazi salutes, Molotov cocktails rock massive Mexico women's march

Nazi salutes, Molotov cocktails rock massive Mexico women's marchA group of women outside Mexico City's main cathedral clashed on Sunday with men protesting abortion who made Nazi salutes, among scuffles that left dozens injured during a protest of tens of thousands of people on International Women's Day. The incidents reflected an undercurrent of anger throughout the day, in which the city government said 80,000 people marched through Mexico City's historic core to the public square fronting the cathedral and National Palace. Wearing green bandanas symbolizing support for abortion rights, at least a dozen women ripped down banners describing abortion as femicide and set them on fire.




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'It was like I was inside a fishbowl': Diamond Princess passenger details life in quarantine

'It was like I was inside a fishbowl': Diamond Princess passenger details life in quarantineCarl Goodman became infected with the coronavirus after sailing on the Diamond Princess cruise ship which was quarantined in Japan.




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U.S. troops begin withdrawal from Afghanistan, official says

U.S. troops begin withdrawal from Afghanistan, official saysAmerican troops have begun leaving Afghanistan for the initial troop withdrawal required in the U.S.-Taliban peace agreement, a U.S. official said on Monday, amid political chaos in Kabul that threatens the deal.




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Biden to defeat Sanders in Missouri and Mississippi, Fox News projects; live coverage on Fox News Channel

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A Botnet Is Taken Down in an Operation by Microsoft, Not the Government


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Missouri Polls: Who Different Groups Supported


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Mississippi Polls: Who Different Groups Supported


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House Reaches Deal to Overhaul Surveillance Laws


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Closing Off Locker Rooms, but Not the Stands, Over Coronavirus Concerns


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Rules Eased on Colleges Seeking to Close Their Campuses Amid Outbreak


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U.S. Airlines Say They Can Absorb Impact of Coronavirus on Travel


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Fast Horses and Blind Eyes: Tapes Detail How Top Trainers Rigged Racing


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Los Angeles Sparks Accused of Sexual Discrimination in Lawsuit


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Even if Sanders Wins, Medicare for All Almost Certainly Won't Happen

Even if Sanders Wins, Medicare for All Almost Certainly Won't HappenWASHINGTON -- With the Democratic presidential contest down to a two-person race, Sen. Bernie Sanders has declared that he will wield his signature issue, "Medicare for All," as a crucial distinction between his campaign and the surging candidacy of former Vice President Joe Biden."Joe essentially wants to maintain what I consider to be a dysfunctional and cruel health care system," Sanders said this week, adding that he hoped they could devote an entire debate to the issue.But an even bigger hurdle than winning the presidency stands between Sanders and his goal of generous government health insurance for all Americans: Congress.No legislation to advance or achieve universal health care has succeeded over the past 70 years without Democrats not only controlling all three branches of government, but also having a supermajority in the Senate. At this point, Sanders' plan has nowhere near that support.Just 14 members of the Senate have signed on to his Medicare for All Act, which would require a huge expansion of federal spending, and Democrats would need to pick up four seats in November to gain majority control of the chamber. Even if they succeeded, most of the Democrats seeking to unseat vulnerable Senate Republicans -- John Hickenlooper in Colorado, for example, and Mark Kelly in Arizona -- have come out against Medicare for All, raising the curious prospect of Democratic Senate candidates opposing the Democratic presidential nominee's most prized policy plan.In the House, a similar Medicare for All bill has 119 sponsors, all Democrats, out of a total 435 members -- at least 218 votes are needed to pass legislation -- and Speaker Nancy Pelosi is not among the supporters. Nor are most of the roughly 40 freshman Democrats known as "front liners," who helped their party win control of the House in 2018 by flipping Republican seats."I'm not sure that the government is prepared or qualified to take over the health care for every single American," Rep. Elissa Slotkin, a Democrat who flipped a Republican district in southern Michigan in 2018, told a local newspaper there.Whether because of the cost -- $34 trillion in new federal spending over 10 years, according to the Urban Institute -- or opposition to eliminating private insurance in favor of government control, most congressional Democrats instead support improving the Affordable Care Act or pursuing a new government-run plan, or "public option," that would compete with private insurance.A public option is at the core of Biden's health plan, but it too could prove extremely challenging to enact, depending on how threatening it seemed to insurers and hospitals. Industry groups that are already mobilizing against Medicare for All could also doom public option legislation, as they did in 2010, when supporters of the Affordable Care Act had to drop a relatively modest public option provision to get the law passed.It is always possible that sentiments could shift -- perhaps sooner rather than later if the coronavirus outbreak were to disproportionately harm people who could not afford care, a possibility Sanders has already raised. He lost no time in making the case for Medicare for All after Health Secretary Alex Azar suggested while testifying before Congress recently that federal officials would not be able to guarantee that all Americans would be able to afford a coronavirus vaccine if it were to become available.But for now, many Democratic lawmakers have expressed trepidation that a legislative showdown over Medicare for All would make it impossible to advance other important initiatives, including on climate change and immigration.And with the Supreme Court's announcement Monday that it would hear a major new challenge to the Affordable Care Act as soon as this fall, even some who support Medicare for All said that for now, Democrats should unify behind the law, which President Donald Trump's administration is seeking to invalidate.Asked in an interview how the House would treat Medicare for All legislation if Sanders were elected president, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, a co-sponsor on the House Medicare for All bill, promptly changed the subject to the court case."This is an unrelenting attack on the health care of everyday Americans, and it seems to me the focus at the moment should be on protecting and strengthening the Affordable Care Act," said Jeffries, a New York Democrat who is chairman of the House Democratic Caucus.History, too, suggests the chances of a President Sanders pushing Medicare for All through Congress would be slim to none. President Harry Truman failed to win comprehensive universal coverage in 1950 even with Democrats controlling the House and Senate. That defeat, as John McDonough, a health policy expert at Harvard, noted recently in the journal Health Affairs, led President Lyndon Johnson to seek a less ambitious fallback 15 years later: universal coverage limited to older people in his 1965 legislation that created Medicare, a historic accomplishment in its own right."If Democrats can further advance toward near-universal coverage without the life-or-death struggles of Medicare for All," McDonough wrote, "they might just achieve meaningful and historic progress even as they preserve the political capital to make progress on other compelling and urgent policy needs."McDonough also pointed out that the landmark coverage expansions in 1965 (which also created Medicaid, but for a very limited group at the time) and in 2010 with the Affordable Care Act were passed not merely by a Democratic-controlled Congress, but also with Democratic supermajorities in the Senate."There's no prospect of having majorities like that," said Paul Starr, a professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University. "It's not going to happen."Even if the rules were changed to get rid of the filibuster, making it possible to pass major legislation with only 50 Senate votes, "there is not any guarantee that the 51st Democrat would be willing to support Medicare for All or anything close to it," said Mark Peterson, a professor of public policy, political science and law at the University of California, Los Angeles.Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., who wrote the House Medicare for All bill, said in an interview that she was not discouraged by the math, noting that since she introduced her bill a year ago, a dozen more members had signed on as co-sponsors, House committees had held four hearings on it, and coalitions representing people of color, labor unions and businesses had begun lobbying for the bill."A lot of the members I speak to that aren't on the bill, I actually believe they would like to be on the bill but think, 'I don't know if it's politically good for me,'" Jayapal said. "That would fundamentally change if Bernie were to be elected president."Proponents of Medicare for All like to cite some polls that suggest there is strong support for the idea. But Mollyann Brodie, who oversees public opinion research at the Kaiser Family Foundation, says only a minority of Democrats are solely in favor of a sweeping Medicare for All plan, compared to a majority who support offering the option of buying a Medicare-like plan or Medicare for All as a way to address high costs and the challenges of getting care.People are wary of the high taxes that could come with Medicare for All, Brodie said, partly because they do not necessarily trust the federal government to determine how the dollars are spent.What also makes Medicare for All unlikely is massive opposition from the health care industry, particularly insurance companies whose very survival is at risk. Hospitals are also opposed, because the federal government typically pays them much less than private health insurers. Being paid at Medicare rates, industry groups say, would cause many hospitals to close and others to lay off their workers.The industry groups that were largely on board for the Affordable Care Act have already mobilized, through groups like the Partnership for America's Health Care Future, to squelch any thoughts of Medicare for All. They are aggressively lobbying Congress and spending on television ads, one of which aired during the most recent Democratic debate.Short of a public option, which all the Democratic presidential candidates besides Sanders embraced in one form or other, there are more incremental proposals that have broad public and congressional support.Increasing the generosity of premium subsidies for people who buy coverage through the Obamacare marketplaces, as California has already done, is one such idea. Another is to offer premium subsidies to adults with incomes below the poverty level in states that have not expanded Medicaid, a population that is still largely uninsured.Jayapal acknowledged that short of a rapid sea change in public attitudes, full Democratic control of Congress would be necessary to even begin moving forward on Medicare for All. She noted, however, that congressional Republicans have fallen in line behind Trump's agenda to an extent that no one predicted, and said the same could happen with Democrats and Sanders."A president can lead his or her party to a different place in a very short period of time," she said. "Sometimes we think the tipping point is much further away than it actually is."This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2020 The New York Times Company




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19 crew members on the Grand Princess cruise ship tested positive for the coronavirus but are not being taken off because they're 'asymptomatic,' the company said

19 crew members on the Grand Princess cruise ship tested positive for the coronavirus but are not being taken off because they're 'asymptomatic,' the company saidMore than 1,000 crew members will stay on the ship as it sails back into the Pacific Ocean. Authorities don't yet have a plan for them.




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Biden, accused of trying to end 2nd Amendment: "You're full of sh**"

Biden, accused of trying to end 2nd Amendment: "You're full of sh**"Biden was campaigning in Michigan at a Fiat Chrysler assembly plant that's being built in Detroit.




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New York Activates National Guard, Creates 'Containment Area' to Stop Spread of Coronavirus

On Tuesday, the state of New York activated the National Guard and establishing a "containment area" outside of New York City, closing schools and other facilities to stem the spread of COVID-19. 

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Exclusive: Afghan government to release 1,500 Taliban prisoners from jails - decree

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani is set to release 1,500 Taliban prisoners in coming days to pave the way for direct talks with the insurgent group aimed at ending the 18-year-long war in Afghanistan, according to a copy of the decree seen by Reuters.


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UK health minister Dorries diagnosed with coronavirus

British junior health minister Nadine Dorries has tested positive for coronavirus and is self-isolating, she said on Tuesday.


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Brazil's Azul cuts flights to Portugal, Florida due to coronavirus: CEO

Brazil's third-largest carrier Azul Linhas Aereas Brasileiras SA will reduce the number of its flights to Portugal and to Florida due to the risks of the coronavirus outbreak, its chief executive officer John Rodgerson said on Tuesday.


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Guardian identified for small child found wandering Sunday morning by Fort Myers police

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